Letter: Tough, but why?

We can give up or try to solve the problem using the tool that the Constitution gives us — democracy. But we need to continuously ask ourselves what caused the tough times?

In 2001 the Congressional Budget Office wrote a report that said if we continued on the path then, by 2006 we'd be debt free as a nation and by 2011 we'd have a $2.3 trillion surplus (for the first time in history). At the end of the last George W. Bush budget, in 2009, we instead were $12 trillion in debt, fighting two wars that were unaffordable by every measure, paying half taxes on income from wealth compared to income from work, and digging out of the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression.

Gov. Mitt Romney has promised much to take at least half of the country back in that direction. He wants no responsibility for the other half. That's the half most prevalent in Florida.